Dr Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle Says Calories Count for Weight Loss, Health (Video)

Linda Watson | Posted 05.25.2012

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The conclusion of Dr. Marion Nestle's Why Calories Count offers refreshingly straightforward advice about how to stay healthy and trim in a society that promotes overeating: Eat less, eat better, and move more.

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Tuna Scrape: Is This Supermarket Sushi Ingredient The New Pink Slime?

www.theatlantic.com | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Sushi Salmonella, Marion Nestle, Sushi, Tuna Scrape, Tuna-Scrape-Salmonella, Healthy Living News

No sooner did the furor over lean, finely textured beef (a.k.a. "pink slime") die down than we have another one over sushi tuna....

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What’s A Calorie?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.22.2012

We are wasting our energy debating the nature of the calorie -- which is, simply, and incontrovertibly, a measure of energy.

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Nutrition Guidance: Letting Chips Fall Where They May

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.14.2012

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I live in a world where decent people occasionally eat chips. So I say it's a good thing to offer the best possible nutrition guidance -- and let the chips fall where they may.

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Public Health and the Illusion of Your Autonomy: Kill the Umpire?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.07.2012

I won't speak for my friends and colleagues in public health, although I suspect they feel the same; I'll just speak for myself. I am nobody's nanny. But as you play with the military-industrial establishment with your health on the line, I don't mind being a referee.

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The Food Movement Must Occupy Wall Street

Kristin Wartman | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Food Movement, Local Food, Occupy Wall Street, Cargill, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Monsanto, Raj Patel, Food News

If you eat any processed or packaged food, or anything from a typical restaurant or café, you can guarantee that Monsanto or Cargill played a role in those foods somewhere along the line.

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Dr. Marion Nestle Weighs in on MyPlate vs. Harvard Healthy Eating Plate

Anna Brones | Posted 11.20.2011

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Even though we all know that we should be eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, we're still living in a society desperately struggling with obesity, and very often, putting the wrong thing on our plate.

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Is it Possible to Have an Unhealthy Obsession With Healthy Eating?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.11.2011

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(With a click of her mouse, EatingLiberally's kat, aka Kerry Trueman, corners Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU professor of nutrition and author of What to Ea...

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Does Factory Farming Have a Future?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.13.2011

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Most people like meat and want to eat it, and do so the minute they get enough money to buy it. I think a more realistic question is this: Can factory farming be done better?

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What's The Problem with Processed Foods?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Processed Food, Big Ag, McDonald's, Michael Moss, Mark Bittman, Processed Foods, Food News

McDonald's seems congenitally incapable of shifting from its default formula of highly processed sweeteners, fats, and, for good measure "11 weird ingredients you would never keep in your kitchen."

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: How Did Junk Food and Obesity Become a Red State / Blue State Debate?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Food Fight, Culture War, Rush Limbaugh, Good Food Movement, David Frum, Glenn Beck, Obesity, Industrial Agriculture, Junk Food, Sarah Palin, Big Food, Food News

I cornered NYU Professor of Nutrition Marion Nestle to ask why the issues of junk food and obesity have become so incredibly politicized.

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Could The USDA Get Any Cheesier?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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(With a click of her mouse, EatingLiberally's Kerry Trueman, aka kat, corners Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU professor of nutrition and author of Feed Your Pe...

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Is Stealth the Way to Healthy Eating for Kids?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Veggies have a serious PR problem, but are stealth methods for getting kids to eat them a good solution?

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Is Wal-Mart's Sustainability Strategy For Real?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Sustainability, Local Food, Wal-Mart, Green News

Wal-Mart can demand whatever it wants from its suppliers, and at the lowest possible cost. So this move costs Wal-Mart nothing. It gains plenty.

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A Visit to My Kitchen: Marion Nestle

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

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Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics is in my kitchen today. Find out what her favorite frozen treat is, her favorite childhood snack, and how she stays connected.

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Navigating the Business of Sugar

Derek Beres | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, NY Times, Sugar, Sugars, Sweets, Sucrose, Sweeteners, Hfcs, Food News

Sugar need not be the devil in the food industry; there is a good reason our bodies crave it. But when we saturate ourselves with anything, physically or mentally, we become dependent on it.

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Can Jamie Oliver Declare Victory?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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When I met with Jamie Oliver's staff in London last summer -- an information session, not a consult -- I thought the project sounded kind of arrogant but knowing nothing about reality television, I was curious to see how it would go.

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Does the USDA Stand for Ultra Silly Dietary Agenda?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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How did the USDA's school lunch standards ever get so nutritionally nutty? Would passage of the CNA support the wholesome, made-from-scratch meals that Jamie Oliver's trying to bring back to our cafeterias?

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Jamie Oliver Turns the Spotlight on Our Own Homegrown Heroes

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've heard from the right that the new health care law is a "baby killer." But aren't taxpayer dollars already killing our children? That's essentially the premise of ABC's Food Revolution, which debuts tonight.

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Cooking for Solutions Sustainable Foods Institute: a Sampling of Upcoming Talks (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rick Bayless, Dr. Marion Nestle, Paul Hawken, Michel Nischan, Sustainable Food, Cooking for Solutions, Sustainable Agriculture, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Green News

Cooking for Solutions is a yearly event at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to raise awareness about the choices we make regarding seafood, the impact those ...

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War and Peas: Why Childhood Obesity Is a Matter of National Security

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Let's Move, Michelle Obama, Diabetes, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Green News

At Tuesday's White House launch of the Let's Move campaign, the First Lady declared her ambition to end childhood obesity within a generation.

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Should Salt Be Regulated?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Salt, Dr. Marion Nestle, Salt Regulation, Sodium, Mayor Bloomberg, Nanny State, Food Industry, Green News

The "invisible hand" of the market can't seem to let go of the salt shaker. Do you think we will ultimately end up having to regulate salt?

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Is Fido The New Hummer?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Robert and Brenda Vale, Pet Food, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Pet food performs a huge public service. If pets didn't eat all that stuff, we would have to find a means of getting rid of it: landfills, burning, fertilizer, or converting it to fuel, all of which have serious environmental consequences.

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Meet Happy Chickens

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I had the pleasure of interviewing 12-year old Orren Fox of Newburyport, MA who happens to keep 25 backyard chickens.

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Stephen Colbert Panics Over The US Sugar Shortage, Pours Sugar All Over Himself (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Stephen Colbert, Sugar Shortage, Colbert Report, Sugar, Food Politics, Green News

Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen got news of the sugar shortage. He screamed, poured sugar on himself, declared sugar "Jesus' dandruff" and t...

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